MEDIEVAL SPAIN

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One Search (Destiny Online Catalog--Login Required) allows you to search multiple databases at one time and create citation list of those sources:
Keyword: Muslims AND Jews AND Spain to search for information about the relationship between the Muslim and Jews in Spain.

Web sources


Assignment-Topics

I. Los árabes/moros

(Arabs and Moors and they contribution)
  • Abd al-Rahman (conquest of Abassids at Cordoba by serving heir of the Umayyad Dynasty
  • Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Zarqali (b.1028 d.1087): Astronomer. See latinized name as Arzachel was a Spanish Arab.
  • Tariq ibn Ziyad-Muslim general whoconquered last king of the Visigoths, King Roderick, at Cordoba in 720..

Sources for reading and research:

II. Los Castillos/Alcazares

III. Clases sociales

Clases sociales en los tiempos medievales/El papel de las mujeres en la sociedad y la historia

IV. El sistema económico en los tiempos medievales

V. El Cid

VI. La historia española hasta el año 711




    • 756 -"Abd al-Rahman assembled forces loyal to him, Syrians and Berbers combined, and one day in May 756, a battle just outside the city walls of Cordoba decisively changed the face of European history and culture. (Menocal 19).

VII. La historia del año 711 al 1492

  • 1121
  • 1135
  • 1166
    • John of Spain: Philosopher; d. Toledo, 1166. A converted Jew, he lived principally in Toledo and became bishop of Segovia in 1149, and then became the archbishop of Toledo. He is credited for having translated many arabic tex

  • 1420-1498
    • "Torquemada, Tomás de. ""Although of Jewish descent, Torquemada probably encouraged the monarchs to attack both the orthodox Jews and those crypto-Jews who had been insincerely or forcibly converted to Christianity but continued to practice Judaism in secret. " (see Biography in Context)
    • Chami, Pablo A. "La Inquisición en España". Junio de 1999. [Curso dictado en el CIDICSEF, Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefardí por el Ing. Pablo A. Chami.] Junio de 1999.
8. Las cruzadas religiosas

IX. Los judíos y sus contribuciones

"Judah ha-Levi

X. Los reyes católicos y la reconquista

XI. La literatura y el arte del año 711 al 1492


12. La España romana

Spain, Roman Occupation-206 B.C.E.-409 A.D
Seneca


Additional Links & topics


Internet Medieval SourcebookInternet Medieval Sourcebook for Iberia from Fordham University. Includes information about the Visogoths, the Inquisition and Jewish Spain.

ANTI-SEMITISM
"anti-Semitism." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-215021? See article section on anti-semitism in Medieval SPAIN (we do not carry

"CultureGrams Kids Edition: Spain: Muslims and Jews in Spain." CultureGrams - Kids Edition. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://online.culturegrams.com/kids/kids_country_sub_categories.php?&contid=5&wmn=Europe&cn=Spain&KidsUniqueID=247&cid=47>.

Jews and Muslims. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?&contentSet=EBKS&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3034900201&source=gale&userGroupName=leyden&version=1.0>.

." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-3783?



"Maimonides, Moses." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. http://school.eb.com/eb/article-4478?



"Manuel I." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9050655?



Philosophy Among the Muslims and the Jews. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?&contentSet=EBKS&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3427400532&source=gale&userGroupName=leyden&version=1.0>.


"Arabic philosophy." Britannica High School. East Leyden High School. Web. 10 November 2010. http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9471770?

CATHOLIC REFORMATION
Catholic Reformation, Counter-Reformation. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?&contentSet=h&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GVRL&docId=CX3034600163&source=gale&userGroupName=leyden&version=1.0>.

SPAIN-THE COUNTRY

Spain Guide -- National Geographic. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://video.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/spain-guide/>.

Toledo, Spain, Photos - National Geographic. n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://video.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/toledo-spain-photos/>.

Toledo, Spain, Santa María La Blanca, 1981, Photo ... n.d. Web. 10 November 2010. <http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/wallpaper/santa-maria-la-blanca_pod_image.html>.





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